No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
– Cesare Pavese

There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
– Washington Irving

In the sex-war, thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated, but a woman’s desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said, we have still to admit, with Byron, that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted, more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty, deceit and revenge is set alight, it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it.
– Cyril Connolly

A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
– Edgar Watson Howe

Fraily, thy name is woman!
– William Shakespeare

In the beginning, said a Persian poet – Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple, and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram – it was a woman.
– William Sharp

The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
– George Bernard Shaw

Woman’s dearest delight is to wound Man’s self-conceit, though Man’s dearest delight is to gratify hers.
– George Bernard Shaw

A woman either loves or hates: she knows no medium.
– Syrus

Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.
– Leo Tolstoy

There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
– Oscar Wilde

She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment’s ornament.
– William Wordsworth